About 2 million years ago, the Homo Erectus brain enlarged, separating themselves from the chimps.
Homo erectus guy learned how to barbecue. Cooked meat takes 25% less energy to digest:
"Reducing the time and energy required to chew and digest raw meat means more energy available for other uses--such as feeding a voracious brain that's getting bigger and bigger."
So if barbecueing and then eating meat helped enlarge our brains--would that mean becoming a vegetarian would shrink them? Seems so.
Just kidding. Sort of.
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Yeah, 'cause Lord knows wherever beefy guys wearing ball caps gather to barbecue in the backyard, that's a massive collection of overwhelming brainpower.
You are right.
Lots of wild, feral brainpower, not much good for anything but finding and cooking meat.
Which after all, is our primary function. Well, that and reproducing--prodigiously and often.
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